After a year that has seen the wide-spread release of an album and a stint in Los Angeles, DYGL look to close out 2016 with a new single. “Waste Of Time” is a shambling rock number, delivered in English and featuring a slightly tipsy vibe that seems to look back at the past, both lyrically…
On their own, Japanese artist Noah and England’s Kidkanevil create their own dreamy worlds in music, the prior favoring silence and the latter leaning more towards an innocent electronic sound (see 2015’s My Little Ghost). Together, as Nemui PJ, they venture into an area that is still just as private…but much, much stranger, the sleep-ready…
Look away for a second, and production project TEMPLIME have started trending upwards. Following the buoyant Sphere, the duo have started working with SAWA on a new song and are set to appear at live events also featuring the likes of kz. The real sign of TEMPLIME moving on up, however, is the overall quality…
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-haZ2I6ywis”] So is this what it sounds like when the often glee-oozing Sebastian X tackle a ballad? Not quite…they aren’t Ayumi Hamasaki-ing it up for the song “Rose Garden, Baby Blue” from forthcoming full-length Futures (say that really fast). Yet the group’s standard-operating kitchen sink sound has been slowed a bit here, sparkling piano coupled…
Wherein Boogie Idol covers the theme song to Supermarket Sweep, and does more to play around with the ideas often attributed to vaporwave better than any modern form of that niche genre going. This moment, closing out the producer’s latest release Shitashimiyasusa, offers a good summation of what makes the album and Boogie Idol in…
Japan’s electronic music scene has mutated into all sorts of fascinating shapes – the spastic lockstep of Seiho, the gooey synth washes courtesy of Avec Avec, the hair-raising lurch of Eadonmm just to name a few – yet most of it originated from the same place. Many of these artists came from (or were inspired…